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Finnish soprano Tarja Turunen returns to the music scene with her third studio album What Lies Beneath. Most well-known as the former frontwoman of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, after breaking with the band in 2005, Tarja has gone on to build a strong solo career that spans continents. After ...

Monkey See chats about Renee Fleming's pop/rock project with a little help from the classical department at NPR Music.

Are you thinking about picking the saxophone up for the first time? The person who invented the saxophone to begin with, a man named Adolphe Sax, drew up plans for a total of fourteen different types of saxophones. There are at least eleven different types of saxophones out there, with ten different voices or types that are the most popular to pick up. The ten different voices of the saxophone are: - Sopranissimo - Sopranino - Soprano - Saxello - Alto - C melody - Tenor - Baritone